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@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

yet another adhd comic

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oh shit we got december tomorrow…

hey! if you're not already aware, my favorite game ever, a boomer shooter called TF2, is currently facing a massive bot problem. bad actors are hosting bot players to farm items and take advantage of the economy, or to go out of their way to disrupt games with cheats like aimbot and wallhacks. an entire game can be put to standstill by 3 sniper bots, and Valve continues to monetize the game despite their several-year long stint of no communication to the community, and no action to stop the bots.

if you'd be willing to take a second, check out this website and sign this petition which will be physically printed and sent to Valve.

a lot of people have a deep love for this game, and it makes me sad that it's made to be as unapproachable as it currently is by people who choose to detract joy from the world because they cannot create it.

Googoo thanks you for your signature. Scout (me) also thanks you for your signature.

served my duty as an autistic artist and made a bunch of autism creature reaction images

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

After an argument that ended with the Druid leaving, the party scrambled to figure out what to do before their next fight occurred.

At the time, they were caught in a rock and a hard place with the soldiers of a tyrant king marching their way and the village that both helped them multiple times and being the key to clearing their names from the other kingdoms being the target of destruction, and with a man down, the party was running low on options.

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“He had all the best support magic of the group and the animal transformation would have been good against the oncoming mob of soldiers!” The cleric yelled, the party down their strongest member.

“And? He was a volatile prick that picked a fight with everybody! And that’s coming from me!” The Kobold barbarian made a good point, the Druid wasn’t a people person and actively drove people away.

“We still needed him for this plan, and now that’s he’s gone, how are we supposed to defend the people. The king’s army will slaughter everyone, us included.” The elven rouge fired back. This wasn’t a good time for all this to happen. How are we supposed to kill a tyrant, protect people, and clear our names if we couldn’t survive each other?

The knight had some plan. “Maybe someone nearby can do the things he could or at least know the spells he could. If we…” The rustling of the bushes caught everyone’s attention.

A bear came out. Not a monster or a familiar or hybrid, a normal bear. Not as dangerous and as a dragon, but can be threatening.

“Hey, piss off! We don’t need you butting in on our panic session.” The barbarian threatened with no luck.

The bear just sat down and lifted one paw up and down, like if he was waving them over.

“I… I think it wants to talk.” The mage finally spoke up, causing everyone to look their way. A shy person like them usually didn’t speak at all. “The bears around here are notoriously aggressive, so um… if it didn’t attack us already, then it may want something.”

“Let’s give the bear a chance.” The rouge vouched for the bear, as a child of the forest. “Use that spell so we all can hear its voice.” The mage agreed and casted Speak with Animals.

“Okay then Mr bear, did you want to ask us something?” The mage shakily said as the party prepared to fight.

"No need for the hostility, heroes. News travels fast in the forest, so I’ll be blunt. I heard your fake-bear left. I'm real, I'm better, and I'll work for fish, meat, and honey. Deal?"

The party huddled together to talk about the opportunity give before they responded.

The knight spoke up. “As much as your offer sounds nice, our problem involves a massive army of heavily armed soldiers, powerful mages, and even some Wyvern flyers. I doubt your strength could make much of a difference.”

The bear then spoke with confidence. “So, it’s an army that you want, eh? Well, I know where to find willing fighters, so come, follow me.”

The bear than walked into the woods with the party following close behind, still in a fighting stance in case of an ambush.

As they moved deeper in the forest, more animals showed up and some started following them.

Rabbits and squirrels, foxes and wolves, raccoons and deer, boars and lizards, ants, moths and mosquitoes, birds of all kinds, and even other bears and tigers showed.

Then in the heart of the forest lies familiar creatures. Dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, gryphons, a hellhound, a kitsune, and some shaggy ape man turned out way, but not before other beings showed up.

Elves, Satyr, Gnolls, Fae, Centaurs, Kobolds, Spriggans, Ents and a Leshy showed up, some we recognized from past quests.

“Wait, we recall saving and helping some of you guys. This is where you’ve been staying?” The clerk recalled the dangerous question that ended with one of them saved, quests taken with the Druid.

“It was hard finding a place that felt safe nowadays, and if trouble wants to come here, then the forest and its inhabitants will fight them off.” An elf proudly states, after which the party look back at the bear.

The bear seems to know what the party was thinking. “Here’s your army, just give us food and point at whatever it is that you want dead.” A thought however, came to their minds.

“If there was an army here, why did you wait until the Druid left to show us this?” The Barbarian seemed confused, wanting to know if they waited for that moment specifically to show.

“That guy was a prick, always boasting, always showing off, always undermining us all, didn’t want to work with that guy.” The bear waved him off like an afterthought, when the elf came forward.

“There was a lot your old “friend” was hiding, some secret dangerous enough that we dared not risk showing ourselves to him.” The elf looks worked that someone was watching, but came up with nothing.

“We allowed a traitor in the party?” The knight seemed a bit fearful.

The elf shakes his head and wanted to clear up something.“Not a traitor, but the energy around him states that he has an agenda of his own, maybe he longs for power or something. In any case, he needed to leave if we were to join up with you heroes.”

The idea of what the Druid wanted with the party bounced in their heads but the looking threat pushed that thought back in their minds as they decided on the deal.

The knight spoke for the party. “We’ll deal with the Druid later, right now we accept your deal and your needs, now let’s head back to the village and arm them, we can’t afford to lose any more time.”

There is a plan in place now, but whether it gets done to completion is unclear. What was also unclear was the plans of the Druid and why he wanted to leave.

After this is all and done, the party are going after him to get answers from him, to hopefully know his true goals be potentially being too late.

After the druid in your party leaves, a bear strolls up—oddly friendly. Suspicious, the mage casts Speak with Animals. The bear says, "I heard your fake-bear left. I'm real, I'm better, and I'll work for fish, meat, and honey. Deal?"

Ahh, I love it when a story has two characters who fit with each other’s story and their personalities mean they will get along but are cursed by never meeting in canon whether by missing each other, never in the same place or death. At least fanfics help remedy this.

I really need to do more studying and write an essay on how Americanism is a genuine folk religion which reveres capital and the vague concept of “the free market” as a god of providence to be pleased in order to lead a prosperous life, also that the founding fathers are prophetic, perhaps even messianic figures who basically gave birth to this god through the revolutionary war, and that the vast majority of conservative Christians in America revere capital more than the god they claim to serve in an ironic sort of golden calf situation.